12 Chapter 12

I could taste myself on her lips. Open-mouthed, she absorbed my gasps and moans.

We staggered back to the bedroom and tumbled down onto the bed to make love again.

Finally, between kisses, we fell asleep.

I woke to Folana trailing her fingertips over the indentation of my waist, up to the curve of my breast. My nipples peaked, and her soft sound of pleasure echoed mine. She dragged her tongue across first one, then the other, and blew a warm puff of breath over each of them.

“I never dreamed it could be like that.”

I stroked her black hair. “Now you just need to find a man who will help you realize how good it can be between a man and a woman.”

“Why?” She sounded shocked.

“Why limit yourself? The realm of sensuality should be boundless.”

“Would you be jealous, Portia?”

“Would you want me to be?”

She hesitated a moment, then shook her head. “I’m…I’m terribly fond of you, you know, but I don’t love you. I’m sorry.”